I found chromecast a bit of a con. The whole casting it sold itself on was a fiddly mess. Better to just admit it was a roku with built in players but without a remote control and casting as just a side kludgy footnote. Yes, you could kind of get there but not in an elegant easy way. Maybe it will get easier now that VLC lets you cast directly from it (Playback menu, renderer). Still perhaps I just wasn't using it right. Cheap mind.